US 12,307,401 B1
Systems and methods of achieving faster optimality through priming of solution space for meat processing industry
Raja Sekhar Kovvuri, Bangalore (IN); and Vikash Kumar Jalan, West Bengal (IN)
Assigned to Blue Yonder Group, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by Blue Yonder Group, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/538,453.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/122,571, filed on Dec. 8, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0633 (2023.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0633 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/083 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a supply chain system comprising one or more supply chain entities; and
a computer comprising a processor and memory, the computer configured to:
access an initial supply chain plan of the one or more supply chain entities;
perform an empirical analysis to determine a quantity of uniform time buckets required to cover the entire planning horizon of the initial supply chain plan;
determine a quantity of time buckets to remove from the quantity of uniform time buckets while maintaining the same planning horizon, aggregate bucketized capacities, and response buffers as the initial supply chain plan;
remove the determined quantity of time buckets from the quantity of uniform time buckets;
identify, using the reduced time buckets, initial supply chain plan response buffers and non-responsive buffers;
generate a reduced scope supply chain problem by deactivating one or more non-responsive buffers; and
control manufacturing equipment to produce products based, at least in part, on a solution to the reduced scope supply chain problem.